THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

PART II

CHAPTER 12

A dreadful instant in a distant past, now perfectly corrected, is of no concern nor value.  Let the dead and gone be peacefully forgotten.  Resurrection has come to take its place.  And now you are part of Resurrection, not of death.  No past illusions have the power to keep you in a place of death, a vault God's Son entered an instant, to be instantly restored to His Father's perfect Love.

How can you who are so Holy suffer?  All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing.  Son of God be not content with nothing!  What is not Real cannot be seen and has no value.  God could not offer His Son what has no value, nor could His Son receive it.  You were redeemed the instant you thought you had deserted Him.  Everything you made has never been.  Your Resurrection is your reawakening.

An ancient hate is passing from the world.  And with it goes all hatred and all fear.  The blood of hatred fades to let the grass grow green again, and let the flowers be all white and sparkling in the summer sun.  What was a place of death has now become a Living temple in a world of Light.  Look back no longer, for what lies ahead is all you ever wanted in your heart.  Give up the world!  But not to sacrifice.  You never wanted it.  What happiness have you sought here that did not bring you pain?  What moment of content has not been bought at fearful price in coins of suffering?  Joy has no cost.  It is your sacred right, and what you pay for is not happiness.

Child of God you were created to create the Good, the Beautiful and the Holy.  Your Function is to add to God's treasure by creating yours.  The Son of God creates to bring him Joy, sharing his Father's purpose in his own creation, that his Joy might be increased, and God's along with his.  You cannot find Joy except as God does.  His Joy lay in creating you, and He extends His Fatherhood to you, so that you can extend yourself as He did.  No one who does not accept his Function can understand what it is, and no one can accept his Function unless he knows what he is.

Creation is the Will of God.  His Will created you to create.  Your will was not created separate from His, and so you must Will as He does.  No one created by God can find Joy in anything except the Eternal; not because he is deprived of anything else, but because nothing else is worthy of him.  Can the creations of God Himself take Joy in what is not Real?  What God and His Son create is Eternal, and in this, and this only, is their Joy.

The Son's creations are like his Father's.  Yet in creating them, the Son does not delude himself that he is independent of his Source.  His union with It is the Source of his creating.  Apart from this he has no power to create, and what he makes is meaningless.  Yours is the independence of Creation, not of autonomy.  Your whole Creative Function lies in your complete dependence on God, Whose Function He shares with you.  By His willingness to share it, He became as dependent on you as you are on Him.  God is not incomplete, and He is not childless.  Because He did not will to be alone God created a Son like Himself.  He has included you in His Autonomy, for He wills not to be independent of you.
 
 
 

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